βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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@cartman82 Sounds like the kind of bullshit tree fondlers are known to spout.
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@cartman82 said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
"Can't they just build the building around the trees?"
Well the answer is "yes", if the architect had known about that requirement from day one. Bringing it up like a day before the foundation is poured is about 18 months too late.
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@blakeyrat As long as it is brought up before preparation work starts, it can probably be incorporated (though at additional cost). Once work on-site starts, the first thing that tends to happen is that every tree gets chopped down, even the ones that probably didn't need it. (Construction workers seem to like to have a lot of free space.)
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NodeBB Bad Idea:
Provide notifications on posts that got super-jeffed and I don't have access to anymore!
I think even got that right.
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@MathNerdCNU said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
super-jeffed
@aliceif said in The Official Funny Stuff Threadβ’:
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@aliceif http://www.jdwelch.net/writing/discourse.html
The possibility of enjoying an art object in a museum or gallery context is inversely proportional to its reliance on discourse for legitimacy.
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One of the strangest stories I've read today:
"When police arrived at the yellow-brick house in Garland, Tex., on the afternoon of Aug. 17, 2010, they found Alan Nevil lying near death in a neighborβs yard. He had been shot five times. One bullet was lodged in his throat. His wife, Darlene, was found dead inside the house, shot in the back and head.
Despite the blood in his mouth, Alan managed to gargle the name of their attacker.
It was his stepdaughterβs 13-year-old boyfriend, he said.
Minutes later, police pulled up outside the boyfriendβs house, just a few blocks away. There, they found Darleneβs 12-year-old daughter and her boyfriend β having celebratory sex."
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@coldandtired
So you read stranger shit yesterday?
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@Luhmann yesterday, I read about a high school football team who had sex with a 15-year-old in the girls bathroom and at least one of them made a cellphone video. The police are "viewing the footage to decide if criminal charges need to be filed". Y'know... because having sex with a 15-year-old is always illegal under Florida law, but having sex with a 16- or 17-year-old is only illegal if you're 24 or older. So, assuming some of the boys were older than her, they're guilty of statutory rape, and she's not. And whoever recorded the video definitely produced child porn.
So I'm left to assume that the need for "viewing the footage to decide if criminal charges need to be filed" is either or it's because the law might not actually apply to athletes. So... no, actually that's not very strange at all.
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@Luhmann It was today but I'm open to the possibility that something worse will pop up in the course of my listless browsing.
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Sharkansas Womens Prison Massacre
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"The burgers are supposed to elicit some childlike enthusiasm for the summer blockbuster β but some are worried that they look like slightly unpalatable substances, including "fresh mold" and "old blood.""
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@El_Heffe I'd eat that.
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@El_Heffe Seems a fitting match up against that game.
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Everything about how Avenue handled this coupon: https://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2016/05/23/worse-than-avenues-coupon-debacle/
Choice quotes:
It has come to our attention that one of our exclusive rewards coupons has been distributed for use in an unauthorized manner on our website. This coupon stated it was valid specifically for in-store use and in-store orders only. Therefore, the coupon was incorrectly used as a promotional code for online orders.
Then why the fuck was it a coupon code you could type into the website at all? Also, how is it the customers' fault if you distributed the coupon on your own website in an "unauthorized" manner, and what does that even mean?
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@Yamikuronue said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
you distributed the coupon on your own website in an "unauthorized" manner, and what does that even mean?
It was ordered by a manager but wasn't signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters?
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@Yamikuronue reading between the lines, I get this:
They gave the coupon as a reward to a handful of people (the author contests this, solely on the basis that apparently, if she can't find them, they don't exist), probably via an email linking to a coupon page on their website that wasn't supposed to be public. One of them noticed that the URL wasn't restricted in any way, and the coupon code could be re-used, so they posted it on coupon-sharing sites. The "verification" on those sites consisted of a bunch of users pushing the ο when the URL and coupon code worked. Then Avenue discovers that the coupon has been used a few thousand times more than the number of emails they sent out, puts the kibosh on it, and cancels orders made by people who weren't supposed to receive the coupon. Then the author picks up on it and turns it into a soapbox to bash them for selling products that some fat people (her words, not mine) might want to use to make themselves look, well, less fat than they are (although, clearly not her... she appears to represent all fat people, though). Also, I came up with a new word: fat-shaming-shaming.
It's mainly their fault for general technical incompetence, but not an overly unreasonable response. Here's what they should've done:
- make the coupons unique per person and voided after being used once
- put a warning in the email saying it could only be used once and not to share the coupon with anyone else
- make their website only accept the coupon codes if it was being accessed from an online ordering kiosk in one of their brick & mortar stores
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@anotherusername The thing is, they totally botched the customer service on that: they kept insisting it was "in-store only" for no good reason, and making those who used the coupon out to be thieves when there was nothing on the coupon to indicate the restrictions and theURL let them use it.
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@Yamikuronue said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
making those who used the coupon out to be thieves when there was nothing on the coupon to indicate the restrictions
I'd say it's reasonable to classify people who apparently thought the whole world was supposed to get $90 off a $90 purchase, from a retailer who doesn't otherwise appear to be trying to rapidly put themselves out of business, as either willfully or maliciously ignorant of the fact it's a mistake and obviously just trying to take advantage of it.
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@error said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Discourse, amirite?
Hey, look, the original bad idea was finally fixed.
Maybe I can give this one a shot and lose all my free time and productivity to obsessively reading threads again.
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@error Welcome back!
It's still rough around the edges, I won't lie. We get far less cooties though!
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@Onyx Thanks. Reading through the Discopocalypse thread. Such drama. Much entertain.
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@anotherusername said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Yamikuronue said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
making those who used the coupon out to be thieves when there was nothing on the coupon to indicate the restrictions
I'd say it's reasonable to classify people who apparently thought the whole world was supposed to get $90 off a $90 purchase, from a retailer who doesn't otherwise appear to be trying to rapidly put themselves out of business, as either willfully or maliciously ignorant of the fact it's a mistake and obviously just trying to take advantage of it.
Yes.
Avenue appears to have screwed up and handled it badly, but, this whole thing still boils down to a bunch of people complaining that they couldn't get something for free.
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@El_Heffe said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
but, this whole thing still boils down to a bunch of people complaining that they couldn't get something for free.
Partly. It took $90 off their purchase β₯ $90. The total was unlikely to be exactly $90 (in some cases, perhaps much more). The orders were cancelled and refunds were promised but not immediately delivered. This left customers in a state where they had paid money but received nothing, and the merchandise they had ordered was not shipped even if they were willing to pay. That's more than just poor customer relations.
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@Onyx That would be because Beeblebrox Firelighters hasn't opened for business yet.
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@Arantor said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
Beeblebrox Firelighters hasn't opened for business yet.
They don't have any product yet. Give it two months and 29 days, the peat is doing its magic.
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@cartman82 I bet this works, even. Despite:
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@cartman82 Some people are described as having sausage fingers but this is ridiculous.
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Chinese state media are promoting a new rap song praising Karl Marx, in the latest attempt to leverage popular culture in support of the ruling Communist Party.
Entitled "Marx is a post-90" β China's version of a millennial β the song extols the communist godfather's supposed coolness with lyrics such as, "Life is full of little accidents, then one day I discovered how awesome he was."
"I saw my faith, don't even ask why," it continues. "You are my Venus, my dear Marx."
The website of the party newspaper People's Daily said the song proves how Marx continues to appeal to young people and will "never completely go out of style."
The site said an accompanying video featuring midriff-baring dancers, a DJ and rappers in backward caps and jerseys has "gone viral."
I...wait, what?
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Dang. These guys are the best argument for voting for Trump:
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@boomzilla It's kind of nice to see people excited enough about the political process this year for actual physical violence.
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@blakeyrat said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@boomzilla It's kind of nice to see people excited enough about the political process this year for actual physical violence.
The best thing is, having had their fill of fun, everyone will now calm down and not escalate the violence further.
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Bad idea: being anywhere near someone trying to cut hair with a quadcopter.
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"Not Age"
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@cartman82 That's in hex or something, right? RIGHT?
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@Onyx photoshopped. Looks like the original was 16, which is a bit creepy but still legal in most of the civilised world
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@Jaloopa So, basically as it were in hex :P
But, yeah, in that case I'm with you on that stance.
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@Jaloopa said in βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Onyx photoshopped. Looks like the original was 16, which is a bit creepy but still legal in most of the civilised world
You're still in very edgy territory there.
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@cartman82 I don't get what the message behind that is...
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TL;DR
Body Part Check List
*(After being smashed apart by a train)*Head...Check
Upper Torso...Check
Lower Torso...Check
Two Arms...Check
Two Legs...Che no wait... only one leg? What the hell, who is going to find out / notice...
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@loose Wow. Thorough accident investigation they did back in 2014.
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@blakeyrat Of course, and I haven't done any research nor have I any recollection of the incident, it could have been so horrific an incident that the body (part) count (and matching) could have been very confusing :) There may have even been an a Sales Rep traveling with his samples of prosthetic limbs...
INB4: Being such a backward and obedient (in the manner of queuing etc) country (based on popular TV) that any request for DNA would have been ignored [spoiler] Does Not Apply [/spoiler]
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